Monday, November 10, 2008

Dora Carrington 1893 - 1932


An Artist who covered many surfaces besides canvas with paint - signs - walls - fireplaces - glass - ceramics - cabinets - did woodcuts - etc. etc. she never signed her work and painted mostly for her own pleasure. She was a force of nature - the model for many characters in the novels of DH Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, Wyndham-Lewis.....

She lived with Lytton Strachey for seventeen years and ended her life shortly after he died.

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